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MUCIANUS, LICINIUS

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MUCIANUS, See also:LICINIUS , See also:Roman See also:general and statesman, lived during the 1st See also:century A.D. His name shows that he had passed by See also:adoption from the Mucian to the Licinian gens. About A.D. 55 he was sent by See also:Claudius, who had become suspicious of his intimacy with See also:Messallina, to See also:Armenia with Domitius See also:Corbulo. Under See also:Nero he regained the imperial favour. After the See also:death of See also:Galba (69), Mucianus and See also:Vespasian (who was at the See also:time in See also:Judaea) both swore See also:allegiance to See also:Otho, but when the See also:civil See also:war See also:broke out Mucianus persuaded Vespasian to take up arms against See also:Vitellius, who had seized the See also:throne. It was agreed that Vespasian should stay behind to See also:settle affairs in the See also:East, while Mucianus made his way through See also:Asia See also:Minor and See also:Thrace to attack Vitellius. He reached See also:Rome the See also:day after the death of Vitellius, and found See also:Domitian, Vespasian's son, at the See also:head of affairs, but until the arrival of Vespasian the real See also:master of Rome was Mucianus. But he never wavered in his allegiance to Vespasian, whose favour he retained in spite of his arrogance. As no mention is made of Mucianus during the reigns of See also:Titus or Domitian, he probably died during the reign of Vespasian. He was a See also:clever writer and historian. He made a collection of the speeches and letters of the See also:Romans of the older republican See also:period, probablyincluding a corpus of proceedings of the See also:senate (Ada senatus), and was the author of a See also:work, chiefly dealing with the natural See also:history and See also:geography of the East, which is often quoted by See also:Pliny as an authority, especially for fabulous statements.

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Brunn (See also:Leipzig, 187o).

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